Irish PM Enda Kenny loses re-election vote

Ireland’s acting prime minister, Enda Kenny, on Wednesday lost a parliamentary vote that could have won him re-election at the head of government, as efforts to form a coalition continue.

Kenny, whose Fine Gael party won the most seats in February elections but with a big drop in support, fell well short of the votes needed to become prime minister and try to form a government.

The parliament was voting on candidates put forward for prime minister for the second time since the inconclusive elections in which voters punished Fine Gael and its junior coalition partner, Labour, for years of austerity measures. The first vote on prime ministerial candidates was in March, when MPs rejected all those put forward.

None of the candidates secured enough support on Wednesday, with Kenny losing by 80 votes to 51. Micheál Martin, the leader of Fianna Fáil, the second biggest party, lost by 95 votes to 43.

This means Ireland’s two largest political parties will continue to try to form a coalition government. They are long-standing rivals: Fine Gael emerged from supporters of the treaty with the British that saw Ireland granted dominion status in 1922. Fianna Fáil was founded by one of the few Easter Rising leaders not to be executed, Eamon de Valera, who violently opposed the deal.

However, the most likely outcome of the negotiations is that Fianna Fáil supports a Fine Gael-led minority administration.

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